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PETER BELLINGER, M. D.
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The tannery of Samuel Haight, which was removed to Ballston Spa in 1882, was located at this point for many years. West Milton is a con- solidation of Spier's Corners and Clute's Corners. Daniel Campbell built a grist mill there about 1798. Ezekiel Whalen opened the first store there. Rock City Falls is located at the upper water power of the Kayaderosseras. Rowland & Kilmer built a paper mill there in 1840, which afterwards was purchased by George West. Chauncey Kilmer has owned a paper mill there for several years. Hilton Hill is now hardly a hamlet. Rowland's Mills or Rowland Hollow is located in the eastern part of the town. It was named after H. R. Rowland, who built the early grist mills and saw mills there.
The town was organized in 1892, at first including that portion of Greenfield which was a part of the old district of Ballston. Greenfield was erected in 1793, since which time the limits of the town have been unchanged. The records of the town clerk up to 1798 have been lost. The following have been the principal town officers since 1792, except- ing the clerks from 1792 to 1798:
SUPERVISORS.
1792, John Ball; 1793-94, Abel Whalen; 1795-96, Elisha Powell; 1797-99, Walter Patchin ; 1800-01, Henry Frink; 1802-03, Jeremy Rockwell; 1804, Silas Adams; 1805- 08, Elisha Powell; 1809-12, Joel Keeler; 1813-15, Daniel Couch, jr .; 1816-18, Joel Keeler; 1819-21, Thomas Dibble; 1822-32,. Thomas Palmer; 1833-37, Isaac Frink ; 1838, James M. Cook; 1839, Abraham Middlebrook; 1840-41, Sylvester Blood; 1842- 43, Hiram Rowland; 1844-45, James M. Cook; 1846, Hiram Wood; 1847, Isaiah Blood; 1848, Daniel W. Culver; 1849, John Talmadge; 1850-51, James Ashman; 1852, Daniel W. Culver; 1853, George W. Ingalls; 1854, John W. Thompson; 1855, John S. Jones; 1856, D. W. Culver; 1857, G. W. Ingalls; 1858, William T. Odell; 1859, Isaiah Blood; 1860, William T. Odell; 1861, G. W. Ingalls; 1862, George W. Chapman; 1863, Cornwell M. Noxon; 1864-65, Edwin H. Chapman; 1866-68, Hiro Jones; 1869-70, Isaiah Blood; 1871, Hiro Jones; 1872, Clarence B. Kilmer; 1873, John McLean; 1874-75, George West, jr .; 1876-79, George L. Thompson; 1880, Truman C. Parkman; 1881-84, George L. Thompson; 1885, Abijah Comstock ; 1886, Martin Lee; 1887, John Richards; 1888-89, Abijah Comstock; 1890, William W. Sweet; 1891, Eben S. Lawrence; 1892, Frank J. Sherman; 1893, Samuel Thompson ; 1894-97, Frederick H. Beach; 1898, Thomas Finley,
TOWN CLERKS.
1799-1808, Ezekiel Whalen; 1809-12, Silas Wood; 1813-41, Alpheus Goodrich; 1842, Horace Goodrich; 1843-44, William T. Odell; 1845-46, Wheeler K. Booth; 1847, David Maxwell; 1848, Samuel De Forest; 1849-52, John H. Westcot; 1853, Seymour Chase; 1834, Lawrence W. Bristol; 1855, Peter C. Gordon ; 1856-65, Charles E. Jones; 1866-1867, Jonathan S. Smith; 1868, Joseph H. Thomas; resigned, and Seth Whalen
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appointed in his place; 1869-70, William G. Ball; 1871, John V. N. Barrett; 1872, William G. Ball; 1873, George W. Oakley; 1874, W. B. H. Outt; 1875-76, Leverett J. Seeley ; 1877, W. H. Chapman; resigned, and James W. Morris appointed; 1878, John L. Carlin; 1879, James E. Lee; 1880-82, William S. Waterbury; 1883-84, Her- bert C. Westcot; 1885-86, Frank D. Groat; 1887-88, Edwin F. Howard; 1889, Jesse Young : 1890, John Augustus Raymond; 1891, Braman Ayers, jr .; 1892-93, John D. Wait; 1894 to date, James Munn.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1830, Alpheus Goodrich; 1831, William J. Angle; 1832, Thomas Palmer; 1833, Oran G. Otis, Daniel Couch; 1834, Alpheus Goodrich; 1835, William J. Angle; 1836, George G. Scott; 1837, James Ladow; 1838, Eliphalet St. John; 1839, William J. Angle; 1840, G. G. Scott; 1841, James Ladow; 1842, Abram T. Davis; 1843, William J. Angle: 1844, G. G. Scott; 1845, Ezra Westcot; 1846, David Maxwell; 1847, Hen- ry Crippen ; 1848, Callender Beecher; 1849, Le Grand Johnson; 1850, David Max- well, Ezra Westcot, Samuel De Forest; 1851, Daniel Bronson; 1852, Charles D. Allen, M. L. Williams, William Wilson; 1853, Ezra Westcot; 1854, Augustus E. Brown; 1855, James Ladow, Abraham Middlebrook; 1856, David Maxwell; 1857, Henry Crippen; 1858, Seymour Chase; 1859, James Ladow; 1860, David Maxwell; 1861, Seth Whalen; 1862, David Morris; 1863, James Ladow; 1864, David Maxwell, Solomon A. Parks; 1865, Cornwell M. Noxon; 1866, Aaron G. Waring; 1867, James Leggett, Charles H. Wickham; 1868, David Maxwell; 1869, Seth Whalen; 1870, Samuel D. Sherman; 1871, James Leggett; 1872, David Maxwell; 1873, Stephen B. Jackson, Jacob S. Settle; 1874, Daniel Boyce; 1875, David Morris; 1876, Theodore Hamilton ; 1877, John H. Smith, Palmer S. Kilmer; 1878, Samuel D. Sherwood (full term), James Miller (short term); 1879, James A. Burnham (full term), Thomas Fin- ley, William W. Sweet, James McFarland (all short term); 1880, David Morris; 1881, Oscar W. Brown; 1882, J. Albert Cipperly (full term), George W. Maxon (short term) ; 1883, John H. Smith (full term), Silas H. Torrey (short term); 1884, George W. Maxon; 1885, Oscar W. Brown; 1886, Silas H. Torrey; 1887, Calvin Whiting; 1888, Horace E. McKnight; 1889, George R. Beach (full term), Brightman Briggs (short term); 1890, John Pierson (short term and long term); 1891, Brightman Briggs; 1892, Thomas Finley; 1893, Obed R. Mosher (full term), Frank H. Brown (short term); 1894, Charles R. Clapp; 1895, Andrew Benton; 1896, Willard W. Brown (full term), Edward S. Coons (short term); 1897, Clarence B. Kilmer; 1898, Edwin R. Quacken- bush (full term), Willard W. Brown and Charles Van Buren (short term).
POLICE JUSTICES.
Under a special statute the town was authorized, in 1863, to elect a police justice once in every two years. Those serving in that office have been :
1863-66, David Maxwell; 1867-74, John B. McLean; 1875, G. W. Hall (resigned and Alvah C. Dake appointed in his place); 1877-78, A. C. Dake; 1879-84, John H. Smith; 1885-88, Silas H. Torrey; 1889-94, James H. Burnham; 1895-96, George L. Lewis; 1897-98, Andrew J. Freeman.
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TOWN OF WATERFORD.
The town of Waterford occupies the extreme southeastern corner of the county. Its area is the smallest of any of the twenty towns in the county, being but seven square miles. It is bounded on the north by Halfmoon, on the east by the Hudson river, on the south and west by the Mohawk river. The Revised Statutes define the limits of Water- ford as follows:
The town of Waterford shall contain all that part of said county beginning in the bounds of the county in the Mohawk river, at the mouth of a certain creek or run of water which crosses the road leading from the village of Waterford to Balls- ton, at the foot of the hill a little to the northwestward of the dwelling-house now or late of Claudius Stannard, and running up the said creek to where it crosses the road as aforesaid; then south seventy-three degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and sixty chains and thirty links to where a creek called the Mudder Kill intersects the public road leading from the village of Waterford to Stillwater; then down the said Mudder Kill to its entrance into Hudson river; then east to the bounds of the county; and then along the bounds of the county southerly and westerly to the place of beginning.
The surface of the town lies mostly from fifty to one hundred feet above the Hudson river. An almost perpendicular range of slate bluffs extend along the Mohawk, and the Hudson valley is bordered by a range of low clay hills. The soil is exceedingly fertile, especially the flats occupying that part of the town north of Waterford village.
One of the finest water powers in the world is furnished by the Cohoes falls in the Mohawk. The Albany branch of the Delaware & Hudson railroad enters the town from Cohoes and a mile above the village joins the Troy branch of the same road, which enters the southern part of the village within three hundred feet of the Hudson. From Waterford Junction the road extends northerly through the town. The Champlain canal traverses the town from north to south.
The survey of the Van Schaick patent, which included the present towns of Waterford and part of Halfmoon, reads as follows, viz. : "The boundaries of a certain parcel of land in the county of Albany, con- firmed under Anthony Van Schaick, by Governor Charles Dongan, 31st May, 1687. A certain parcel or tract of land, and being to the north and above the town of Albany, and is commonly called and known by the name of Half-Moon, which stretches up alongst the north river, from a certain place where are several streams of water, to a creek or kill where there is a fall of water which, running into the land, hath its course into the north river; the said creek, or kill, and fall being by
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the Indians called Tieuwenendahow; and from thence runs up the Maquas-Kill westward, to a place called Dowaelsoiaex, and so strikes presently eastward up along by the said stream and then to the north river aforementioned."
The first settlements in Saratoga county were made in Waterford, then called Half Moon Point, a few years after the early settlements at Albany. The site for the village was purchased in 1784 by Colonel Jacobus Van Schoonhoven and several others, and settlers came rapidly to occupy the building sites offered. Van Schoonhoven was probably the first merchant and innkeeper in town. Numerous small manufac- turing concerns were established in town at a very early day, but the industrial development was not very great until after the completion of the hydraulic canal in 1829. Two years later the manufacture of fire engines was begun, and the product since turned out has made the name of Waterford famous throughout the country.
The pioneer religious society of Waterford, which has been extinct for many years, was the Reformed Dutch church, which probably was established long before the Revolutionary period. Of the other churches in town, Grace Protestant Episcopal church was founded in 1810, the Presbyterian church about 1793, the Baptist church in 1821, the Methodist church in 1830, and the Catholic church soon after the Civil war.
Waterford is the principal village in the town, and the oldest in the county, having been incorporated in 1801. The first trustees were Hezekiah Ketchum, Jacobus Van Schoonhoven, Matthew Gregory, Isaac Keeler, John Pettit, Duncan Oliphant and Thomas Smith. Un- fortunately the village records were destroyed in the great fire of 1841. Since that year the presidents of the village have been :
John House, 1841; John Stewart, 1846-47; John Knickerbacker, 1848-49; John Wood, 1850; John Stewart, 1851; William H. King, resigned November, 1852; J. H. Cudworth, elected December, 1852 to fill vacancy; William Scott, 1853; John Law- rence 1854; John Cramer, 1855; L. G. Hoffman, 1856; John Stewart, 1857; Daniel B. King, 1858-65; E. B. Cole, 1866; John Titcomb, 1867-70; William Holroyd, 1871-72; Moses Bedell, 1873-74, died August 1, 1874; C. A. Waldron, elected August 5, 1874, to fill vacancy ; Edward Stewart, 1876; David T. Lamb, 1877-78; John Proper, 1879; George Stewart, 1880; Gad H. Lee 1881-84, died August, 1884; William Holroyd, elected to fill vacancy; William Holroyd, 1885; Eli M. Powell, 1886-89; Jeremiah Husted, 1890; James W. Brooks, 1891-98.
There are five churches in the village. The public school system is an excellent one. The union school is the outgrowth of the once
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famous Waterford academy. The latter institution, which stood on the corner of Division and Sixth streets, where St. Mary's church now stands, was incorporated by the Legislature April 28, 1834, and ad- mitted by the Regents February 6, 1839. William T. Seymour was principal in 1836-38; Samuel R. House, 1839-40, and William G. Lloyd, 1841-47. . The last few years of the career of the academy it was located in the building on Second street previously occupied by Mrs. Emma Willard. The Emma Willard Female seminary, which subsequently removed to Troy, was at one time one of the most noted female schools in the United States. The Masonic lodge in the vil- lage was instituted in 1848. Waterford lodge, No. 231, I.O.G. T., was organized in 1867, and Maple Valley lodge, No. 427, I.O.O.F., in 1875. The Saratoga County bank was incorporated May 29, 1830, with a capital stock of $100,000, with John Knickerbacker as the first pres- ident.
The Waterford Waterworks company was incorporated in 1885 and on October 6 of that year made its first contract with William Holroyd, then president of the village, to supply the village with water. Frank A. Hinds was the first president of the company. Water is pumped from the Hudson river to a standpipe on Prospect hill, three quarters of a mile from the village, whence it is distributed by mains.
The Waterford town hall is a commodious building located on Broad street. The corner stone of the structure was laid September 16, 1873.
Waterford's manufactures have always been of considerable impor- tance. The famous Button Fire Engine works were established in 1834. Holroyd's stock and die manufactory in 1847, the straw board mill in 1864, the Rock Island flour mills in 1847, the Gage machine works in 1835, Frank Gilbert's Mohawk & Hudson paper mill in 1872, the Brooks nut factory in 1835, Van Schoonhoven & Co.'s knitting mill in 1875, the Franklin ink works in 1831, the Waterford sawing mills in 1872, the Globe Iron works in 1873, the Waterford soap and candle factory in 1830, the Massasoit knitting mills in 1872, King's stock, die and tool works in 1829, the Mohawk & Hudson Manufacturing company in 1847, Van Kleeck's brush factory in 1864, the Hudson Valley knitting com- pany in 1870, the Shawtemack mills in 1834, the Munson knitting mill in 1871, the Eureka knitting mills in 1881, the Waterford knitting company in 1885, the Bishopton knitting mill in 1886, the Kavanaugh knitting company in 1891, Sidney D. Sault's paper box manufactory in 1892, the Clyde knitting company (successor to the Meeker, Spotten &
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Meeker company) in 1892, the Clover knitting company (successor to the Hudson Valley knitting company) in 1897, the Ormsby Textile company in 1893, and the Eddy Valve company in 1891.
The town of Waterford was not formed until several years after the incorporation of the village. It was originally known as Half Moon Point. The supervisors since that time have been :
1816, John Cramer; 1817-18, Jacobus Van Schoonhoven; 1819, Daniel Van Alstine; 1820-25, William Given; 1826-28, Joshua Mandeville; 1829, Nathan Bailey; 1830, Joshua Bloore; 1831-33, Eli M. Todd; 1834, John Stewart; 1835, John Vernam; 1836, Charles Scott; 1837, Joshua Bloore; 1838, Robert Blake; 1839, Joseph H. Cudworth; 1840, James I. Scott; 1841-42, George W. Kirtland; 1843, William Scott; 1844, Will- iam T. Seymour; 1845-47, David Brewster; 1848, David T. Lamb; 1849, Abram L. Brewster; 1850, David T. Lamb; 1851-52, Daniel G. Smith; 1853, John Fulton; 1854, W. C. Vandenburgh; 1855, Joshua Mors; 1856-58, John Titcomb; 1859-66, David T. Lamb; 1867-70, Courtland Brewster; 1871-72, Thomas Breslin; 1873-75, David T. Lamb; 1876, James H. Brewster; 1877-78, Henry C. Vandenburgh; 1879, John Law- rence; 1880-81, John B. Palmer; 1882-84, James H. Shine; 1885-90, John E. Gage; 1891, Jeremiah Husted; 1892-97, Eli M. Powell; 1898, James H. Glavin.
The following list of town clerks of Waterford is as nearly complete as it can be made from the records:
1832-34, John Cramer, 2d; 1835-41, M. C. Powell; 1848-49, William A. Waldron; 1850-52, Courtland Brewster; 1853, John Smith ; 1854, Lyman U. Davis; 1855, Charles E. Pickett; 1856-57, Millen Bedell; 1858-62, George S. Waterman; 1863-70, Samuel A. Northrop; 1871-75, George E. Pickett; 1876, Benjamin Singleton; 1877, Major B. Winchell; 1878, George E. Pickett; 1879-81, James H. Lloyd; 1882-83, Frederick W. Williams; 1884, Frank D. Barnfather; 1885, Thomas G. Dunwoody; 1886-87, Lewis S. Van Arnum; 1888-1889, Thomas G. Dunwoody: 1890-91, David D. Steenbergh; 1892, W. Frederick Lawrence; 1893-97, James H. Glavin; 1898, John G. Cole.
The justices of the peace have been as follows:
1848, Joseph H Cudworth; 1849, William T. Seymour; 1850, Charles Johnson ; 1851, John Cramer, 2d; 1852, Robert Moe, Joshua M. Todd; 1853, Joseph H. Cudworth, Cornelius A. Waldron; 1854, John Wood; 1855, John Cramer. 2d; 1856, Lewis G. Hoffman; 1857, Chauncey Sherman; 1858, James McKallor; 1859, John Cramer, 2d; 1860, Joseph H. Cudworth; 1861, Chauncey Sherman; 1862, Anthony J. Brease ; 1863, John Cramer, 2d; 1864, Joseph H. Cudworth : 1865, Chauncey Sherman, Gad H. Lee; 1866, Gad H. Lee, John F. Pruyn; 1867, John Cramer, 2d ; 1868, Pearl Spafford; 1869, J. F. Pruyn ; 1870, Peter Quackenbush ; 1871, John Cramer, 2d ; 1872, John A. Waldron ; 1873, Henry Foley, William Shepherd; 1874, Chauncey Sherman ; 1875, Peter Quack- enbush; 1876, George S. Waterman; 1877, Charles W. Barringer; 1878, Henry Foley ; 1879, Peter Quackenbush, Frank D. Peck; 1880, Frank D. Peck, John D. Lewis; 1881, Charles W. Barringer; 1882, Henry S. Tracy; 1883, William A. Dennis, John Evers; 1884, Benjamin Singleton; 1885, Charles W. Barringer; 1886, William K. Mansfield; 1887, George E. Pickett; 1888, J. William Atkinson; 1889, Benjamin
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Singleton; 1890, William K. Mansfield; 1891, John Evers; 1892, J. William Atkin- son; 1893, Benjamin Singleton; 1894, William K. Mansfield; 1895, Frederick W. Kavanaugh; 1896, J. William Atkinson; 1897, William German; 1898, William K. Mansfield.
The term of the police justice's office is two years. The incumbents of this office have been :
1879-80, Henry Foley ; 1881-82, George E. Pickett; 1883-84, Henry Foley ; 1885-90, Charles McKallor ; 1891-92, William Curtis, sr. ; 1893-96, George E. Pickett ; 1897-98, Michael Brown.
TOWN OF SARATOGA.
The town of Saratoga, commonly known as Old Saratoga, to dis- tinguish it from the town of Saratoga Springs, which originally formed a part of this town, occupies the centre of the eastern tier of towns. It is bounded on the north by Wilton and Northumberland, on the east by the county line (the Hudson river), on the south by Stillwater, and on the west by Saratoga Springs and Malta, part of the two latter towns consisting of the water of Saratoga lake. The Revised Statutes de- scribe the town as follows:
The town of Saratoga shall contain all that part of said county bounded northerly by Northumberland and Wilton, easterly by the east bounds of the county, southerly by Stillwater, and westerly by Saratoga Springs and Malta.
The eastern part of the county, bordering on the Hudson river, is flat. The central and western parts are occupied by a range of hills extending north and south. Most of the land is productive. Saratoga lake forms the southern half of the western boundary. Fish creek, the principal stream, is the outlet of the lake, and flows easterly into the Hudson through the northern part of the town. The Quaker mineral springs, three in number, lie a short distance southeast of the centre of the town.
Saratoga is the most historic town in the county. Settlement was begun in the latter part of the seventeenth century. As early as 1687 Governor Dongan endeavored to persuade a band of Christian Iroquois, whom the French missionaries had led to Caughnawaga, on the St. Lawrence, to return and settle in Saratoga under English protection, that they might form a barrier between Albany and the hostile French and Indians of the north. Here, in February, 1690, Lieut. Le Moyne de St. Helene with his band of Canadian Indians left for Schenectady, where they committed the historic massacre. Here, too, in the sum-
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mer of the same year Major Peter Schuyler of Albany, with some Dutch troops, erected a small fort and named the place Seraghtoga. In 1709 Schuyler, now a colonel in command of the advance guard of the second great army of northern invasion, built another fort, on the east side of the river. It was in this town, too, that one of the most important battles in the world's history was fought-the conflict which resulted in the surrender of Burgoyne's army of invasion in 1777. During the French and Indian wars Saratoga was in the direct path trod by many armies whose operations resulted in transferring all the territory south of Canada to the English crown.
The pioneer settler in the town probably was Bartel Vroman, who located on the bank of the river as early as 1689, perhaps before that date. As early as 1709 or 1710 it is believed that representatives of the famous Schuyler family built mills and other buildings on the south side of Fish creek, near the historic Schuyler mansion. In 1745, at the attack upon old Fort Saratoga, several saw mills and other buildings upon Fish creek and the Hudson river were burned, and about thirty families were killed or taken prisoners. At this time Captain Peter Schuyler was killed in his own house. But we have no record of the names of these victims, most or all of whom may have been set- tlers in this town. After the peace of 1763 between France and Eng- land settlers began coming into the town in large numbers. Among them were Abraham Marshall, Thomas Jordan, John Strover, Heze. kiah Dunham and James I. Brisbin The western part of the town was not settled until the close of the Revolution. About 1790 Jesse Toll built mills at Grangerville. The first tavern in Schuylerville was opened about 1800 by Mrs. Taylor, a widow. About 1812 Daniel Pat- terson built a tavern on the site of the Schuylerville house. Madame Riedesel's letters refer to a tavern just below Schuylerville kept by a man named Smith. The first store in town was probably kept by John Douglas. Two branches of the Fitchburg railroad run through the town, and the Champlain canal traverses the eastern part of the town, running north and south.
Schuylerville is the most important village in the town. It was in- corporated April 16, 1831. The first officers, elected June 7, following, were: Trustees, Gilbert Purdy, Richard W. Livingston, James Strang, Cornelius Letcher, John Fonda; treasurer, Ira Lawrence; collector, David Williams. The trustees elected Gilbert Purdy president and James Strang clerk. The village enjoyed a great impetus to its in-
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dustries upon the opening of the Champlain canal, and is now a manu- facturing town of considerable importance. It contains six churches- the Reformed Dutch church, organized in 1772; the Baptist church, 1790; the M. E. church, 1827; the Episcopal church, 1846; the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation, 1845-1847; and Notre Dame Catho- lic church, 1889. It also contains a fine public school system under the direction of Prof. R. H. Whitbeck. The National bank was organized in 1853. There are several thriving fraternal organizations in town. The paper mills were founded by D. A. Bullard & Co. in 1863. In 1832 David B. French established a foundry there. The Horicon cot- ton mills were established in 1828. The State dam across the Hudson at this point was built in 1871-1873 by Dennison, Belden & Gale of Syracuse. Following its construction numerous new industries were established at or near Schuylerville. One of the most important of these is the concern known as the Thomson Pulp and Paper company, incorporated June 11, 1888, by Lemon Thomson, John A. Dix, Curtis N. Douglass and J. D. Powers. The capital stock is $100,000. The village has an excellent fire department, which has made itself famous. The first company was organized August 15, 1836. The hand engine owned by the village for many years held the world's record, having thrown a stream of water 235 feet in the air several years ago, at Coney Island, N. Y.
Victory Mills is a suburb of Schuylerville, lying just south of that village. Here the Saratoga Victory Manufacturing company estab- lished immense mills in 1846. The original capital invested was $425, - 000, but large amounts have since been expended. The village was incorporated in 1849, when William E. Miner, Patrick Cooney, George McCreedy, Russell Carr and Benjamin Kelsey were chosen trustees, William E. Miner, president and James Cavanaugh, clerk.
Coveville, Grangerville, Quaker Springs and Dean's Corners are ham- lets. Coveville is on the Champlain canal in the southern part of the town. Quaker Springs is southeast of the centre and Dean's Corners west of the centre. Grangerville is on Fish creek.
The town was organized March 7, 1788, as a town of Albany county. It had a district organization as early as 1772. In 1791 it became a town of the newly erected county of Saratoga, but then comprised the territory now within the towns of Saratoga, Saratoga Springs, North- umberland, Moreau and Wilton, and parts of Malta and Greenfield. In 1789 the town of Easton, in Washington county, had been taken off.
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